Implementing Cultural Safety in Healthcare: A Nurse's Action Plan

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Cultural Safety in Healthcare
Name
Institution

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Cultural Safety in Healthcare
Introduction
The current study seeks to present my personal action plan for the inception of
cultural safety practices in the healthcare organizations I will work with as a nurse. The
papers is divided in two sections identified as part one and part two. In part one, the
action plan is outlined. On the other hand, part two presents the rationale of the action
plan.
Part One: Personal Action Plan
In my position as a future nurse, I consider the advancement of the wellbeing of
the Aboriginal and Torres Islanders as one of my primary health priorities. In my years
of professional practice, I will raise my commitments towards ensuring that the health
outcomes of the indigenous populaces I serve meet the required standards by
upholding the innate vision of sustaining, strengthening and modeling person centered
nursing practices by upholding the ideologies of cultural safety. I will adopt the following
action plan to ensure the indigenous people I offer my services to feel respected, and
are cushioned from the issues of discrimination and racism.
Goal
To ensure that the populaces I serve are availed with equitable access to health
care services that uphold the ideals of cultural safety, are relationship based and are
aimed at improving the medical outcomes of the indigenous people.
Objectives
 To influence the healthcare institutions I will work with to create and adopt
organizational cultures that are aimed at promoting cultural safety through ample
support of a system approach that supports holistic health and social service
approaches, by fostering commitments from leaders, policies, and institutional
structures.
 To strengthen the capacity of my fellow staff for cultural safety through
professional advocacy for training opportunities, and development support aimed
at fostering the adoption of required skills, potencies, knowledge and traits as a

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way of encouraging the delivery the most appropriate and equitable services that
are based on the ideals of cultural safety.
 To appreciate the efficacy of traditional knowledge and healing strategies while
delivering health care services by strengthening all frameworks of exploring and
incorporating the methods that can be respectfully implemented alongside the
social and health services offered by the institutions I will work with.
Resources
Collaboration among the targeted Indigenous populaces, members of the nursing
profession and the administrative arms of the health care institutions I will work with will
play an essential role in ensuring that the action plan is implemented. However, the
process of sharing knowledge among these partners requires the investment of
enormous fiscal resources. According to Richardson, Yarwood, and Richardson (2017)
financial resources are required to foresee the processes of infusing new knowledge,
implementing changes in organizational culture and developing a staff that adheres to
the frameworks of cultural safety.
Anticipated barriers
The spread of the ideologies of whiteness among the targeted populaces will be
considered to be the primary hindrance to effective implementation of the action plan.
Usher, Mills, West, and Power (2017) explain that currently, indigenous populaces such
as the Aboriginal and Torres Islanders have developed a feeling of inferiority towards
most of the healthcare initiatives based on the previous institutional racist practices they
were exposed to. As such, it is expected that the implementation of the action plan will
be faced with resistances from these people. However, I will tackle his challenge by
establishing ample ties with elders in these communities while studying and
appreciating their cultures. On the other hand, it is expected that the workforces of the
institutions I will work with may resist the proposed changes in their organizational
cultures. To deal with this challenge, I will initiate effective stakeholder buy-in strategies
aimed at educating the administration and staff on the importance of upholding cultural
safety.